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Best Germ Poems

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My Grains, Deconstructed
This time around, I will not scatter these grains
to land where the weeds might choke them.
This time around, I will collect these kernels
and take them...

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Categories: germ, growth, introspection, sun,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Suicidal Humanity
Our supposed modern scientific genius
May in fact just be our last fatal weakness.
This technological house of cards we've made
Left humanity walking along the edge of...

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Categories: germ, angst, business, earth, environment,
Form: Couplet
The Rabbit and the Fox 20 Line Ballad
~~ The  Rabbit and the Fox   ~~  20 line Ballad
The Rabbit and the Fox
The Rabbit and the Fox are here
go down...

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Categories: germ, adventure
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Simple Poverty
Simple Poverty

I think that I was maybe three
When memories started following me
They called us poor and, I guess, we were -
These things will tell if...

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Categories: germ, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Garbage Can
There I sit in every home, 
in the corner of the room.
I collect discarded items
including bottles of old perfume.

Bills and advertisements
magazines and letters too, 
especially...

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Categories: germ, humorous,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Reincarnation Thinking
REINCARNATION THINKING?

Life is like a coloring book
with few or many pages
filled with complex 
outlined images.

We are given a box of crayons
and are asked to color...

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Categories: germ, creation, death, feelings, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Summer Matinee
I was only allowed to go, after much whining 
     begging, promises of unlikely saint-hood
     if my...

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Categories: germ, brother, me,
Form: Narrative
False Prophets
FALSE PROPHETS

They have the word of God as their encyclopedia
They refer and come out to deceive the myopia
They are quick to inform like Wikipedia
Their actions...

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Categories: germ, allah, allegory, anger, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Mama's Cleaning
That was the day we played all day outside
And ride imaginary stick horses around 
Shooting and shouting as if our lungs was rawhide
It was in...

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Categories: germ, introspection, life, mother, on
Form: Quatrain
....Darkness Falls....
Do you really think, that I am going to trade my eternal soul,
for your bowl of germ infested puke? Think again!
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O' sullen sullies of...

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Categories: germ, visionary
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Winter Bugs - Now a Collaboration
Lin, sorry to hear, as I am sick too
But I know it's not covid or the flu
Been blowing my raw nose
Sneezing still comes and goes
Maybe...

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Categories: germ, care, health, sick,
Form: Limerick
It Was Never a Hoax
Covid didn't like being labeled "just a hoax"
So it took revenge on one who made sick jokes
I don't wish him any harm
But he won't buy...

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Categories: germ, perspective,
Form: Limerick
Free Cee From Columbine To Colorado
FROM COLUMBINE TO COLORADO

So he gazes at his arsenal with stars in his eyes
as his neighbors see not through his disguise
he lives and breaths all...

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Categories: germ, angst,
Form: Quatrain
The Contamination
The flat evening
In the bowl
In the swing
Absolute control

In the sky
The gray air
A little shy
The white hair

In the morning
The beta blocker
In the evening
The scripture and prayer

The...

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Categories: germ, confusion, corruption, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gist of Something
Germ of an idea
Adrenaline rush
Set your own agenda
                 ...

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Categories: germ, inspiration, power,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things